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In This Issue: Spawners in the Deep  •  Decoys: Fake News for Turkeys  •  Mega Sharks in the Texas Surf  •  Why You Need a Spinning Rig  •  Adapting Drones for Fishing  •  Kayak Tourneys: Paddling for Bass [button title=”Return […]

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Promoting from Within BACK IN JANUARY 2013, while covering the SHOT show out in Las Vegas, we were approached by a young man whose physical size—well over six and a half feet tall—was impressive enough. But what impressed us more was

Red Reel Fans Thank You very much for your article published in the December 2018 issue of Texas Fish & Game about the “Red Reel”.  It was very entertaining.  My brother and I grew up with our dad using this

The Chipmunk and the Conservation Calling EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS. At least that’s what I was taught growing up in the Lone Star State. Driving through the steep, winding roads in the Trinity-Klamath National Forest, however, made me realize

Ponds THE WATER WAS MOSSY GREEN and the shoreline was budding with the promise of new spring. The chartreuse spinnerbait landed with a flat splat just beyond a cluster of stickups. The pulsing blades stirred a faint wake, clipping the smooth

BASS FISHING’S VERSION of March Madness may not be in full swing just yet, but it won’t be long. It’s a bewitching phase of the game that beckons armies of bass toward the shallows where they’ll choose partners, build spawning beds

Hammerheads, Tigers and Other Sharks that Swim in Our Surf LAST SUMMER, Robstown angler Poco Cedillo and his partners caught a nearly 900 pound hammerhead in the Texas surf. He and his team typically tag and release sharks, but this

SPINNING TACKLER IS THE most misunderstood kind of fishing equipment that is easily accessible to anglers. Most anglers own spinning gear, but perhaps not many understand all of the benefits of using it. That’s a shame because there are huge

Alligator Gar Regs JUST IN CASE you haven’t heard, more restrictive regulations for the Trinity River alligator gar fishery and possibly others may soon come down the pike if the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has its way. Alligator gar are

The Case of the Surface Feeding Flounder Through a vast of amount of fieldwork and the blessing of being in the right place at the right time I am on the edge of unlocking a mystery. It involves the rarely

You Can Take It with You MANY AN ANGLER has a dream boat. Whether it is the tournament ready 22-foot bass boat with the Batmobile cockpit and free racing helmet, the shallow-running bay/flats hybrid with modified tunnel-vee hull, or the go-fast

Grab More Gobblers with these Decoy & Calling Strategies TEXAS IS HOME TO THE LARGEST population of wild turkeys in America. This is due to an enormous population of Rio Grandes (500,000) along with scattered easterns and a handful of

I’m Making a List “ARE YOU COMING THE WEEKEND?” I asked my grandson Jake. “Got a list of things we need to get done before we get too far into spring,” I told him. “Want to build a new ground blind

Odd Bullet Performance MANY YEARS AGO I was hunting deer in some rugged hills west of Uvalde. We had seen one particularly large buck in a rugged, brushy canyon that ran west from a small, clear creek. On this day we

Deploying Remote Control Aircraft to Catch More Fish DRONES ARE BEING USED by anglers more and more as they become more and more common. Today, using one to boost your catch rate at the beach is a smart—and fun—tactic. A drone

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT bass tournaments, images of high performance bass boats come to mind, as they speed across a lake to get to that remote hot spot. Those high performance boats need a huge amount of money for basic

CWD Containment Expands, Includes Sika and Red Deer THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT (TPWD) has confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in three white-tailed deer in Medina, Dallam, and Hartley Counties, and in three mule deer in Hudspeth, Hartley, and